Check out Prince receiving his Icon Award at the Billboard award.
Prince is hosting a pajama party tonight at his Minneapolis home. According to Rolling Stone, guests arriving to “The Breakfast Experience Pajama Dance Party” should come wearing their PJ’s only. The flyer for the party doesn’t promise Prince will be performing, but his new band 3rdEyeGirl will. The soiree begins at 2 a.m. and entry requires a $50 donation. [RollingStone]
Via: Allmusic.com
Few artists have created a body of work as rich and varied as Prince. During the ’80s, he emerged as one of the most singular talents of the rock & roll era, capable of seamlessly tying together pop, funk, folk, and rock. Not only did he release a series of groundbreaking albums; he toured frequently, produced albums and wrote songs for many other artists, and recorded hundreds of songs that still lie unreleased in his vaults. With each album he released, Prince has shown remarkable stylistic growth and musical diversity, constantly experimenting with different sounds, textures, and genres. Occasionally, his music can be maddeningly inconsistent because of this eclecticism, but his experiments frequently succeed; no other contemporary artist can blend so many diverse styles into a cohesive whole. Continue reading…
